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Researchers rushing to apply powerful sequencing techniques to ancient-human remains must think harder about safeguarding the samples.

What can simulating 8 million universes tell us about the history of our own universe?

Scholars globally are feeling the heat from politicians. They should take inspiration from scientists in the 1950s who raised the alarm over nuclear weapons.

Experimental findings will be either boring or extremely dangerous, argues philosopher Preston Greene of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

One third of our food is lost or wasted. With growing pressure on our arable lands, we will need to change our habits, concludes the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in a report released today.

Analysis of Kepler data has found 800 transiting exoplanets; 154 of them "reciprocally transit," meaning that observers there could detect planets of our solar system in the same way.

Twisted sheets of graphene not only show signs of superconductivity, but they also generate orbital ferromagnetism, a type of magnetism once only dreamed of theoretically.

In 2000, a physicist who lacked biology training created a chart that didn't include the shielding effect of skin. It led to unwarranted fears of wireless technology.

The mathematician is celebrated for his code-cracking work that proved vital to the Allies in World War II.

And you thought it was a show about nothing: From micro pigs to the doping dangers of a poppy seed bagel, life may be imitating the sitcom.